Amnesty report states that Hamas committed war crimes against Palestinians. According to Amnesty, Hamas carried out torture and cruel treatment on detainees. Amnesty contacted Palestinian authorities, including the Hamas administration in Gaza, to cooperate with independent investigations, among them one conducted by the Commission of Inquiry set up by the UN Human Rights Council in… Read More

While the emphasis is presently on making the EU-Turkey migrants swap bargain work, the 46,000 individuals stranded in Greece must not be overlooked, Amnesty International has cautioned. The NGO said in a report on Monday (18 April) that Greece needed better than average gathering offices and conditions were deficient in a large portion of the… Read More

Egypt has dispatched another crackdown on human rights bunches, addressing staff and requesting resource solidifies over allegations they took remote subsidizing to destabilize the nation after the 2011 uprising that finished Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year standard. Egyptian rights activists say they are confronting the most exceedingly terrible ambush in their history in a more extensive crusade… Read More

United Nations investigators have blamed the Egyptian Government for shutting down non-government associations (NGOs) and putting travel bans on their staff in order to block scrutiny of human rights issues in the country. The nation’s NGOs have gone under expanding assault under the administration of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. In the most recent two months,… Read More

The United Nations on Tuesday recommended overhauling financial oversight of the General Assembly president’s office following a bribery scandal involving one of its former chiefs. The US authorities charged John Ashe with tax fraud in October, suspecting him of having accepted more than a million dollars in bribes from Chinese business people seeking to influence… Read More

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Federation of Somali Trade Unions (FESTU) which is a NUSOJ affiliate raised alarming security concerns against media workers and trade union leaders at various levels by militias funded by the Brussels based International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). Following the ITUC funded drama in Mogadishu on 29 December, 2015, which a Somali national, Omar Faruk Osman… Read More